Bakame was driving his wife and three children when he knocked a tree in Nyamata, Bugesera District, on Wednesday.
It is reported that he was trying to escape a pickup which almost collided with his car.
Now remaining without club after parting with Rayon Sports recently, the football star also served as goalkeeper and captain of the national team, Amavubi, for years.
IGIHE has learnt that the family of five is safe and recovering from its residence in Nyamata.
A friend of Bakame tells IGIHE that the five were admitted to Nyamata Hospital yesterday. Only the wife had serious injuries, others with minor injuries.
As club captain, Bakame earned Rayon Sports with Peace Cup in 2016, first league cup in 2017 and club’s historical qualification for Confederation Cup this year.
Valuation of their properties was confirmed in 2014 on the land on which district’s offices are to be developed.
The value was put at Rwf177 million as compensation for 22 households.
Offended residents claim losses as they are denied to use land for anything else other than growing crops that do not stay long on the soil.
One of them is John Nsanzimana. He has told IGIHE that they have waited for long without being expropriated.
“We are not allowed to use our land for our projects and the district is not paying us compensation. We cannot even sell it (land) to any other client because the district did the valuation,” he said.
The land is located in Gakenke Sector. The sector’s Executive Secretary Félicien Cyubahiro, confirmed that plots’ owners are not allowed to do lasting projects like developing houses or growing crops that take longer than 120 days to be harvested.
This is because, he said, the plots owners can be compensated anytime
The district’s engineer Valens Mpabanzi says the expropriation has been delayed by lack of required documents on the side of the land owners.
He said the lists are now ready for all meeting the requirements to be paid not later than one week.
“The first group’s payroll has been done for them to receive payment by this week.”
Mpabanzi added the 22 will be compensated in two phases. Phase one is in the first part of 2018/2019 fiscal year running from July to December. The second part falls in the revised national budget starting in January to end in June 2019.
Law relating to expropriation in the public interest states that the compensation shall be disbursed in 120 days maximum from the time of valuation.
In case of delay, the property’s value increases by 5% every year but the delay shall not exceed the period of two years.
Graziano was in Kigali for a two-day conference (20th-21st) that discussed Youth Employment in the agricultural sector on the African continent.
Via his twitter wall, Graziano expressed his satisfaction for meeting President Kagame and further thanked him for his will and commitment at fostering rural development.
“My satisfaction to meet again @PaulKagame, now during my official visit to Rwanda, and to witness his commitment and leadership as @_AfricanUnion (African Union) President in fostering rural development and jobs for the African youth,” Graziano tweeted.
On Monday, as he officiated the International conference, Graziano said that the lack of participation from the Youth in Agriculture was due to the challenges it met such as lack of market, lack of knowledge on the matter, among others.
Graziano further said that governments needed to take action to make agriculture more attractive to young people.
“To tap the potential of the agri-food value chain in terms of job creation, we need to promote a new kind of rural transformation. We need to urbanize rural areas.” Graziano said
Yesterday, Graziano visited a FAO poultry project funded by the African Union, in Gakenke District. The project has provided decent employment opportunities to the Youth and improved the nutrition of families in the district.
“On my way back to Rome, I leave Rwanda very optimistic: youngsters are ready to fulfill their potential as a #ZeroHunger generation and to lead the way for a more peaceful, sustainable world. It is up to us, all of us, to create them the necessary opportunities to make this happen!” Graziano tweeted
In Rwanda, most people living in rural areas are employed in the agriculture sector. Investing in rural development promotes diversification in creation of jobs, improves food systems and consequently eliminates hunger and unemployment.
FAO has been supporting the Government of Rwanda in this sector by providing technical skills to farmers to develop their entrepreneurial capacities among others.
Two months from now, the new Secretary General of the International Organization of la Francophonie (OIF) will be elected on October 11 and 12, during the Yerevan summit. The position is being campaigned between Incumbent Secretary General of La Francophonie Michaëlle Jean and Rwanda’s Louise Mushikiwabo.
Via its official twitter wall, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry tweeted “On 22 and 24 August, Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs @LMushikiwabo (Louise Mushikiwabo) will visit Armenia. During the visit, negotiations between the Foreign Ministers of #Armenia; @ZMnatsakanyan (Zohrab Mnatsakanyan) and #Rwanda are planned.
In the past days, Mushikiwabo took her campaign to Cambodia, where she held discussions with her counterpart, Prak Sokhonn, on the 9th August.
In a recent Interview with AFP, Mushikiwabo, said that she believes the OIF “could do much more” in influencing issues on the international scene. Among her ideals, Rwanda’s Foreign Minister seeks to prioritize peace, security and promotion of the youth among others.
The Centre mainly receives people battling drug abuse, thieves and prostitutes, before taking them through intensive rehabilitation provided by a team of experts.
On 28th June, 36 delinquents were released in irregular ways that goes against Transit Centre’s laws, while on 18th August, 32 escaped, as confirmed by the District Officials.
Following the events, on Tuesday, Northern Province Officials demanded explanations from the district officials, the Committee in charge of people who are being helped by the Transit Centre, and others involved in the Transit Centre’s management, on the issue.
Speaking to IGIHE, Burera District Mayor, Florence Uwambajemariya, said that investigations on the issue have been launched.
“The 36 people were released illegally since the committee in charge of allowing their release was not there at the time. As for those who escaped, we are investigating the issue and hold the responsible individuals accountable,” Uwambajemariya told IGIHE.
Uwambajemariya added that the 32 who were illegally released include delinquents, drug addicts, and petty thieves among others admitting that there might have been negligence among the responsible officials. She assured residents that it would not occur again.
Speaking to IGIHE, Northern Province’s Governor, Jean Marie Vianney Gatabazi, reproached the neglect and added that the province officials were to follow-up the case.
“This sort of negligence of duty should not be tolerated. People admitted in the Transit Centre have character dents that need to be rehabilitated and released just like that, without any sort of protection,” Gatabazi said.
“We are questioning those who were supposed to guard them because it looks like corruption might have been involved, but we are still investigating,’’
He added that if it becomes apparent that some officials or guards from the Transit Centre received bribes, they will be punished.
Locals from Nemba sector said that they could not understand how delinquents who threatened their safety could be released just like that, and for others to escape in a place that is said to be highly-guarded.
Habiremye Thomas, a local, told IGIHE that it was confusing how they could have escaped in a highly guarded place. He suspected that they were helped to escape.
According to District Officials, out of the 32 who escaped, 13 were recaptured while the rest are still at large.
The Varsity’s presence in Rwanda offers a platform where people can engage in Africa’s most significant opportunities and challenges through education and contextually-relevant research.
CMU-Africa is currently hosted at Telecom House but is set to relocate soon to a Rwf9 billion newly constructed campus located in the government newly designed Innovation City, in Kigali Special Economic Zone (KSEZ).
The University launched its operations in 2012, with the aim of training more than 400 students within five years, but has so far graduated 145.
The Chief Operating Officer at Rwanda Development Board, Emmanuel Hategeka, in October 2017, told Parliament that there had been slight complications in joining the campus with the University of Rwanda.
According to the Auditor General’s 2016/17 report, Rwanda invested $43 Million, approximately Rwf36 Billion.
As for the 2016/17 Nation Budget, the Government attributed Rwf7 Million for the construction of Carnegie Mellon’s new campus located in the Kigali Special Economic Zone (KSEZ), in a bid to enhance better education for students.
Speaking with IGIHE, Rwanda’s Minister for Information Technology and Communications, Jean de Dieu Rurangirwa lauded the university’s campus presence in Rwanda, and said it presented opportunities for Africans.
Rwanda is currently the only African country hosting the branch of Carnegie Mellon University.
“The University enrolls students from over 20 countries across the African continent. The knowledge there is of great advantage as the campus offers an American-worthy Education,” Rurangirwa observed.
“With the campus in Rwanda, the country benefits a lot because it develops a great relationship with the students hosted and you will find that most of these students decide to stay in Rwanda when they complete their studies,” he added.
“Other benefits involve being united as Africa; we gain new brains that are in search of a place where they can develop their potential,” Rurangirwa said.
In May 2017, the university signed agreements with Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) aiming to cooperate in the making of devices for e-tax payment, and finding other kinds of online methods of tax payment.
The new CMU-Africa campus is being constructed in a place designated by the government as the Kigali Innovation City, a future hub aimed at leveling up the country’s digital transformation.
Africans studying in Rwanda’s CMU-Africa campus pay a fee of $16,000, an estimation of Rwf13 Million per year. As for East-African students, they receive a discount of 50% from the fee.
Born out of a partnership between CMU and the Government of Rwanda, CMU-Africa is addressing the critical shortage of high quality engineering talent required to accelerate development in Africa—home to the fastest growing workforce in the world.
Daily Monitor reports that brutality against the media started in Arua early last week and continued in Kampala this week.
African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) said in a statement that the incidents highlight a disturbing trend towards repression of freedom of expression.
The brutalised include NTV journalists Herbert Zziwa and Ronald Muwanga.
The two were battered last week by security officers as they reported live from Arua in the violence that followed killing by shooting of Yasin Kawuma, the driver of Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi, the pop-star known for his stage name as Bobi Wine.
Protesters also smashed President Yoweli Museveni’s car as they took on streets to boycott the ruling NRM campaign for the parliamentary by-election which took place last Wednesday.
Museveni was in Arua campaigning for NRM candidate Nusura Tiperu while Bobi Wine campaigned for independent but opposition-leaning candidate, Kassiano Wadri.
Wadri won over NRM’s Tiperu as winner of the Arua Municipality parliamentary by-election. The election was held while Wadri, Bobi Wine and some other MPs were behind the bars. They were arrested for inciting violence in their last campaign.
More media workers were battered and arrested in Kampala on Monday while covering the #FreeBobiWine political protests in Kampala.
James Akena, a photographer for the English news agency Reuters was beaten by soldiers and detained for several hours. His equipment was also confiscated.
Ronald Galiwango and Juma Kirya, journalists for NTV, Julius Muhumuza (Online), and Observer’s photographer Alfred Ochwo were also beaten.
Videos of the violence against media and protesters have gone viral on social media.
Akena is seen covering the protests in Kisekka Market in downtown Kampala when military men in their uniform battered him using long sticks, warning that “we shall kill you all.”
“I was pushed under the police truck after they had taken away my camera and money. Only the phone survived and when we reached CPS [Kampala Central Police Station], they ordered me to delete all the recordings from the camera but mine was in pieces,” Mr Akena told Daily Monitor yesterday from his hospital bed in Kampala where he was admitted following the beatings.
Many media workers have got scars and swellings resulting from torture they have faced during their coverage of the protests.
More have reported acts of intimidation by allegedly security agencies via phone calls while others say their cameras, phones or computers have been confiscated by men in uniform.
Brig Richard Karemire, the army spokesperson, criticised Tuesday the unprofessional conduct of soldiers who battered journalists while deployed on a joint operation with police to quell the protests in Kampala.
“UPDF wishes to express its displeasure over such behaviour by those individuals and as a result, the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) has ordered their arrest and punishment,” he said in a statement.
Eid al-Adha, which in Arabic literally means the "festival of the sacrifice", commemorates the Koran tale of Prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael but God offered him a lamb to sacrifice, ruling that no human life should be sacrificed in the name of God.
The Head of State yesterday took to twitter to wish joyful celebrations to Muslims saying “EidMubarak to all muslims in Rwanda and across the world celebrating Eid al-Adha. I wish you all continued joyous celebrations.”
In Rwanda, the celebrations took place at a national level at Kigali Stadium in Nyamirambo, where they offered prayers.
The Mufti of Rwanda, Sheikh Salim Hitimana, who led the gathering in prayers at Kigali Stadium, urged the Muslim Community to fight drugs especially among the youth and report drug dealers. He further called them to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, slated for September 2-3.
The day is marked with the sacrifice of an animal, usually a goat, sheep, or cow, and the distribution of the meat among neighbours, family members, and the poor.
The Rwandan Muslims Community (RMC) shared and distributed sacrifices of 1000 cows and 2000 goats worth Rwf200 Million.
She was director of Kibingo Health Centre in Rutsiro District until she died on Monday night.
Dusabinema was among 179 candidates vying for 24 women’s seats equivalent to 30% of the 80-seat parliament.
The women’s 30% is provided by the 2003 Constitution amended in 2015.
It is reported that she had hypertension but the complication had eased for long before her death.
Rutsiro District Mayor Emérence Ayinkamiye told IGIHE yesterday that Dusabinema got in critical conditions Monday around 10 pm from her home and died on the way to hospital.
Ayinkamiye said the district has lost an important leader in addition to having been a candidate for the Lower House.
” She had been suffering from high blood pressure but doctors told us it had eased for long. Her death was really abrupt,” said the mayor.
“She was a hard worker. Her health centre was always number one in delivery in the district. We have lost an important servant.”
Dusabinema had been in campaigns for a seat in parliament. She lately campaigned in Nyamasheke District.
The parliamentary general elections for 53 seats are slated for September 2 and 3 in Diaspora and Rwanda respectively.
Women representatives will be voted on September 4; the same day will be voted two representatives of the youth and one for the people with disabilities.
The event that took place last Sunday was attended by over 60 members of Dallas Fort Worth Rwandan Community.
Addressing participants, the first counselor at the Embassy of Rwanda in U.S, Frank Kayijuka told how in ancient Rwanda, Umuganura was one of the most important ceremonies celebrated by Rwandans at the beginning of every harvest season, carried out at the king’s palace, and at the family and community level as an occasion to celebrate the country’s abundant harvest.
“Today, our tradition of celebrating Umuganura is still meaningful for Rwandans but carries another meaning. It is an opportunity to take stock of the achievements of our nation, while looking at ways of addressing future challenges, as we all thrive towards national development,” said Kayijuka, as he called the diaspora to join in on the journey that the country has embarked on, and practice self-reliance while fostering Rwanda’s development.
Kayijuka also thanked the efforts made by Rwandans living abroad, who contributed to this year’s various initiatives such as providing Mutuelle de Santé to less privileged Rwandans back home.
Rwandan traditional meals were shared as community members mingled and danced.
